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Russia Mammal List

            Name                                                                      Numbers seen

1. European Bison (Bison bonasus)                                  50++
2. Siberian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)                    7
3. Barguzin Sable (Martes zebillina)                                  1
4. Forest Lemming (Myopus schisicolor)                            1
5. Siberian Chipmunk (Tamias sibirica)                             2
6. Souslik (Spermophilus major)                                     20+
7. Baikal Seal or Nerpa (Phoca sibirica)                            500+
8. Large-toothed Siberian Shrew (Sorex daphaenodon)        1
9. Red Fox  (Vulpes vulpes)                                            1
10. Corsac Fox (Vulpes corsac).                                         1
11.  Dybowski’s Sika Deer (Cervus nippion dybowski)            20++
12.  Roe Deer (Capreolus pygarus)                                   1
13.  Old World Badger (Meles meles)                                 1
14.  Kamachatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos piscivorus)         2-3
15.  Insular Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina stejnegeri)              25+     
16.  Spotted or Largha seals (Phoca largha)                       30+
17.  Steller’s Sea Lions (Eumetopius jubatus)                       100++
18.  Collared Lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus)                     1
19.  Medny Island Polar Fox (Alopex lagopus seminovi)           1
20.  Common Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris lutris)                     100+
21.  Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus)                        1000’s
22.  Pacific Humpbacks  (Megaptera novaeangliae)               5
23.  Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus)                      25+     
24.  Bowhead Whale (Balaena gracilis)                                1-2
25.  Cuvier’s Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris)                   1
26.  Orca (Commander & Kuril subpopulations)                     25+
27.  Hokkaido Brown Bear (Ursus arctos yesoensis)              2-3
28.  Lemming Voles (Alticola lemminus)                              1
29.  Dall’s Porpoises (Phoceonoides dalli dalli)                     500++
30.  True’s Porpoise (P. d. truei)                                       2-3
31.  Pacific White-sided Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)    500++
32.  Pacific Minke Whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata davidsonii)          100+

Vocals, Fresh Sign or Near Misses

1. Musk Deer (Moschus moschiferus)
2. Manchurian Red Deer (Cervus elephas xanthopygos)
3. Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
4. Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
5. Bering Island Fox (Alopex lagopus beringensis)
6. Kuril Island Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes kurilensis)

Russia Bird List

1. Chaffinch
2. Robin
3. Redwing
4. White Wagtail
5. Great Spotted Woodpecker
6. Nutcracker
7. Buzzard
8. Eurasian Rook
9. Black Cap
10. Siskin
11. Hooded Crow
12. Song Thrush
13. Siberian Thrush
14. Black-headed Gull
15. Northern Swift
16. Black-billed Magpie
17. European Starling
18. Common Tern
19. Tree Sparrow
20. House Sparrow
21. Jackdaw
22. Short-eared Owl
23. Ferruginous Pochard
24. Common Coot
25. Herring Gull
26. Herring Gull (Baikal Form)
27. Black Kite
28. Northern Lapwing
29. Rock Pigeon
30. Northern Raven
31. Northern Black Grouse
32. Ruddy Shelduck
33. Red-breasted Merganser
34. Common Merganser
35. Chinese Merganser
36. Common Kestrel
37. Slender-billed Gull
38. Pacific Swift
39. White Wagtail
40. Thick-billed Reed Warbler
41. Spot-billed Duck
42. White-winged Scoter
43. Northern Hobby
44. Wood Sandpiper
45. Eurasian Curlew
46. Eurasian Cuckoo
47. Daurian Partridge
48. Tufted Pochard
49. Steppe Eagle
50. Northern Hazelhen
51. Great Tit
52. Red-footed Falcon
53. Mallard
54. Eurasian Wigeon
55. Garganey
56. Gadwall
57. Northern Shoveler
58. Falcated Duck
59. Northern Pochard
60. Horned Grebe
61. Eurasian Bittern
62. Grey Heron
63. Common Crane
64. Black Stork
65. White-tailed Sea Eagle
66. Eurasian Honey Buzzard
67. Greater Spotted Eagle
68. Crested Honey Buzzard
69. Northern Harrier
70. Greater Golden Plover
71. Hill Pigeon
72. Northern Swift
73. Barn Swallow
74. Sand Martin
75. Gray Wagtail
76. Citrine Wagtail
77. Tawny Wagtail
78. Meadown Bunting
79. Greater Scaup
80. Great Egret
81. Pale Thrush
82. Yellow-throated Bunting
83. Lesser Black-backed Gull
84. Forest Wagtail
85. Black-browed Reed Warbler
86. Collared Flycatcher
87. Eurasian Nuthatch
88. Brown Dipper
89. Little Ringed Plover
90. Common Pheasant
91. Wire-backed Pipit
92. Gray-backed Thrush
93. Eastern Crowned Warbler
94. Meadown Bunting
95. Indian Cuckoo
96. Common Sandpiper
97. Ashy Minivet
98. Hawfinch
99. Kentish Plover
100. Great Cormorant
101. Swan Goose
102. Red-rumped Swallow
103. Northern House Martin
104. Brown Shrike
105. Coat Tit
106. Azure Tit
107. Green-winged Teal
108. Black-necked Grebe
109. Great Crested Grebe
110. Purple Heron
111. Little Heron
112. Schrenck’s Bittern
113. Common Buzzard
114. Water Rail
115. Whiskered Tern
116. Hoopoe
117. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
118. Great Reed Warbler
119. Lanceolated Warbler
120. Long-tailed Tit
121. Japanese Reed Bunting
122. Scarlet Rose Finch
123. Redpoll
124. Osprey
125. Mew Gull
126. White-backed Woodpecker
127. White Wagtail – Kamchatka Form
128. Yellow-breasted Bunting
129. Barrow’s Goldeneye
130. Tufted Puffin
131. Horned Puffin
132. Thick-billed Murre
133. Red-faced Cormorant
134. Slaty-backed Gull
135. Steller’s Sea Eagle
136. Greater Green Shank
137. Black-legged Kittiwake
138. Northern Fulmar
139. Red-legged Kittiwake
140. Pigeon Guillemot
141. Snow Bunting
142. Common Redpoll
143. Harlequin Duck
144. Japanese Grey Bunting
145. Northern Wren
146. Least Auklet
147. Thin-billed Murre
148. Velvet Scotter
149. Common Eider
150. Sooty Shearwater
151. Glaucous-winged Gull
152. Spectacled Guillemot
153. Red-throated Pipet
154. Lapland Longspur
155. Grey-crested Rosefinch
156. Brambling
157. Arctic Rosy Finch
158. Rock Sandpiper
159. Whiskered Auklet
160. Parakeet Auklet
161. Common Oystercatcher
162. Red-throated Loon
163. Leach’s Storm Petrel
164. Forked-tailed Petrel
165. Pomarine Jaeger
166. Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel
167. Ancient Murrelet
168. Crested Auklet
169. Oriental Greenfinch
170. Pine Rosefinch
171. Layson Albatross
172. Black-toed Albatross
173. Short-tailed Albatross
174. Glaucous Gull
175. Temminck’s Cormorant
176. Golden Eagle
177. Rough-legged Buzzard
178. Dunlin
179. Red-necked Phalarope
180. Common Snipe
181. Black-tailed Gull
182. Rhinoceros Auklet
183. Rufous-turtle Dove
184. White-rumped Swift
185. Greater Pied Kingfisher
186. Black-backed Wagtail
187. Arctic Warbler
188. Grey Bunting
189. Jungle Crow
190. Siberian Ruby Throat

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